Bhavesh Joshi Superhero Movie Review: It Will Tug Your Conscience!

Harshvardhan Kapoor doesn’t play the title role in Bhavesh Joshi. Anyone could.This is a film about pricking awake the conscience , so well written, and so successful in downplaying the image of the typical hero.Anyone could be that prick.

On the other hand no one really bothers. Why should they when all you get for trying to change the status quo is a death in the gutter? What makes this film an important testament on the need to make your voice of protest is the language used to convey that urgent need to raise one’s voice.

Though wrongly marketed as a super-hero film Bhavesh Joshi actually tells us why the cult of super-heroism needs to be urgently replaced by a more practical and tenable form of working class heroism.

Hence Sikandar(Harshvardhan Kapoor) is at first happy being a pseudo-reformist spewing reformatory jargon in smoky pubs until something happens to put him on red alert.

The film has a slow steady and solid buildup to a climactic outburst that is so powerfully shot it leaves us with a sense of​ foreboding forthe hero whose mask peels off to reveal the face ofthe ordinary mansuffering the indignities of a system that allowspoliticians to fleeceand flee.

Nishikant Kamat makes a menacing villain. A politician on the corporator’s level so more into street goondaism than a more powerful politician, ​who dreams of controlling Mumbai.

What makes Aditya Motwane’s film on the extraordinary heroism of ordinary people is its relentless statement on unostentatious heroism. Harshvardhan Kapoor, in a post-debut role that allows him to prove he has the creative chops to carry a role even when cast as a​ reluctant hero, steps intothe heroic mould without losing his sense ofordinariness . The young actor excels in conveying the helplessness and growing rage of theaverageyoungsters who watches the danceof plunder, thistime it isMumbai’s water supply that plundering politicians desire.

How we look at Sikandar(Kapoor)’s efforts to stop the plunder is entirely reliant on how effectively we accept Harshvardhan Kapoor as an actor who excels in being in a man who won’t give up Anna Hazare’s dream of re-structuring society​. Harshavardhan getsample opportunity to play a character who gets caught in definitions of heroism from a internet joke to a suicidal vigilante​

.He makes judicious use of the character’s dilemma to build a structure of doddering idealism.​

He is well supportedby two other young actors PryanshuPainyuli andAshishVerma who playHarshvardhan’sbrothers in arms.

Bhavesh Joshi is a film that catches us offguard. Its message of social awakening spotlights a film that is brave and bleak.Shot with a ​striking senseof the raw and the realby cinematographer SidharthDuwan this is a film that salutes a woundedcivilization without resorting to theflag-waving patriotismofParmanu.It doesn’t offer instant solutions and home-made remedies against corruptioninpolitics. It tells us all to go out there and try to makea difference.